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Recorded November 7, 2013 at the Lawrence Arts Center (Lawrence, KS)
With
KU Jazz Ensemble I (Dan Gailey, director)
$10 USD (digital only)
Bustin' Broncs and Honky Tonks
Our first full-length release
Recorded at Weights and Measures Soundlab with Duane Trower June - Nov, 2020. Keeping the band working during the pandemic!
Release date: Dec 19th, 2020 on CD and digital streaming platforms
1. White Freightliner Blues - Townes Van Zandt
2. Thank You Sir (For Takin' Her Away From Me) - Slim Hanson
3. Together Again - Buck Owens
4. I Can Hear You Cryin' - Beau Bledsoe
5. He'll Have To Go - Joe and Audrey Allison
6. XJS - Beau Bledsoe
7. There Stands the Glass - Hull, Shurtz, Greisham
8. Bustin' Broncs and Honky Tonks - Slim Hanson
9. Denial Ain't the River In Egypt - Beau Bledsoe
10. Head Hangs Down In Sorrow - Slim Hanson
Pre-order CD now! We'll ship CDs on Dec 18th.
$15 USD
Enigmática features highlights from our 2019 and 2020 Concert Series. Ensemble Iberica records every concert, and this collection was edited down from multiple recordings in concert halls, theaters, bars and churches.
Released July 3, 2020
Ensemble Iberica:
Beau Bledsoe - guitar, Michael McClintock - guitars, John Currey - percussion, Victor Penniman - viola da gamba, Amado Espinoza - flutes, charango, Brandon Draper - percussion, Norma O'Neil - dance, palmas, Melinda Hedgecorth - dance, Coleen Dieker - violin, Soukayna Jamali - vocals, laud, Molly McLaughlin - flute
Special guests:
Nadia Larcher - vocals, Christine Brebes - violin, Marco Pascolini - pedal steel, Max Baca - bajo sexto, Josh Baca - accordion, Noel Hernandez - electric bass, Lorenzo Martínez - drums, Mireya Ramos - vocals/violin, Enrique Chi - cuatro, Juan-Carlos Chaurand - percussion, Slim Hanson - vocals/guitar, Brad Cox - Fender Rhodes piano, Jeff Harshbarger - bass, Alfonso Cid - vocals, Pedro Calderon - bass
$15 USD
This recording features highlights from our 2017, 2018 and 2019 Concert Series. Ensemble Iberica records every concert, and this collection was edited down from approximately seventy hours of recordings in concert halls, theaters, and churches in the Kansas City area.
Beau Bledsoe - guitars, Amado Espinoza - sikus, toyo, quena, Andres Ramirez - percussion, Pedro Calderon - bass, quena, Melinda Hedgecorth - dance, José Cortés Fernández - vocals, Mark Southerland - saxophone, Norma Pacheco O'Neil - palmas, Mireya Ramos - violin, John Currey - percussion, marimba, Sam Wisman - marimba, Laura Lee Crandall - marimba, Katie Garcia- marimba, Molly McLaughlin - flute, Coleen Dieker - violin, Brandon Draper - percussion, Jordan Ayala guitars, James Isaac - clarinet, Jeff Harshbarger - bass, Bruno Bessa - vocals, Coleen Dieker - violin, Havilah Bruders - vocals, Victor Penniman - medieval vielle, Christine Brebes - violin, Martín Sued - bandoneon, Brad Cox - piano, Nathalie Pires - vocals
$15 USD
1. Empty Arms Hotel - Slim Hanson / Beau Bledsoe
2. Pictures from Life's Other Side - John B. Vaughan 1862-1918
3. High Lonesome - Slim Hanson
4. Yesterday’s Coffee - Beau Bledsoe
5. King Nothin’ - Beau Bledsoe
Slim Hanson - vocals, guitar
Beau Bledsoe - vocals, elec guitar
Marco Pascolini - pedal steel
John Currey - drums
Michael McClintock - bass
Special guest: Havilah Bruders - vocals, track 2
This recording features highlights from our 2015 and 2016 Concert Series. Ensemble Iberica records every concert, and this collection was edited down from approximately fifty hours of recordings in concert halls, theaters, and intimate clubs. The energy and mutual engagement between musicians and a live audience is an irreplaceable experience for all involved. This spontaneous dynamic allows a musician to embrace an unscripted accident or to extend an improvisation into unimagined territory. A live recording can transmit these aspects of performance much more than a studio recording can ever attain.
Nathalie Pires -vocals, Mireya Ramos - vocals, violin, Shae Fiol - vocals, Bruno Bessa - vocals, Victoria Botero - soprano, Fedra Cooper Barrera - vocals, Beau Bledsoe - guitar, Michael McClintock - guitar, Jeff Freling - guitar, Jordan Shipley - guitar, Rod Fleeman - guitar, Clarke Wyatt - banjo, Victor Penniman - viola da gamba, Christian Fatu - violin, Betse Ellis - fiddle, vocals, Norma Pacheco O'Neil - castanets, Amado Espinoza -charango, flutes, percussion, Brandon Draper - percussion, John Currey - percussion, Pat Conway - percussion, Zsolt Eder - violin, Rich Wheeler - Saxophone, Jeff Harshbarger - bass, Dominique Sanders - bass, Pedro Pimentel - bass, Hermon Mehari - trumpet, Mark Strozier, flute.
$15 USD
Saxophonist and composer Matt Otto's innovative new recording integrates his modern jazz sensibilities with Ensemble Iberica, a Kansas City-based collective devoted to the music of Spain and Portugal, and whose instrumentation focuses on the guitar but includes the Cuban tres, Brazilian Cavaquinho, and Turkish oud. Rendering the lines and voicings of Otto's music within the texture and aesthetic of a chamber music ensemble results in a sound that is both lush and contemplative, creating new, compelling soundscapes. Iberica also features Brad Cox on Fender Rhodes, Karl McComas-Reichl on bass & cello, and Mike Stover on steel guitar.
Matt Otto - tenor saxophone
Ensemble Iberica:
Beau Bledsoe - guitar, oud
Jordan Shipley - guitar, cavaquinho
Michael McClintock - elec gtr, Cuban tres, acoustic bass gtr
Brad Cox - Rhodes
Karl McComas-Reichl - bass, cello
Mike Stover - steel guitar
$15 USD
4.5 stars, Best albums of 2013 - Downbeat Magazine
"Vibrant like crazy, but those times when oud lays back, the rhythm section lets off the gas pedal, and sax just drifts in over the top…seriously beautiful music" - Dave Sumner emusic
$15 USD
"I couldn't imagine any broadminded listener not enjoying this immaculate recording." - Bill Brownlee plasticsax
$15 USD